GPs, pharmacists and matrons are among NHS staff being drafted in to help trusts cope with this week’s junior doctors’ strike as hospitals send out an “all hands on deck” appeal to cope with the mass walkout 🔴 PMGallagher1 reports
Ward managers have been told to focus on discharging medically fit patients to go home and to step up virtual ward and urgent community response services where possible. Weekend rotas either side of the strike have been beefed up to try and cope with the inevitable backlog that will arise due tociting a 26.1 per cent real-terms pay cut since 2008. Meeting the target would require a 35.3 per cent pay rise, which Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, has called “unrealistic”.
The registrar, who will be on the picket line this week, said trust bosses were not putting undue pressure on staff to cover the work of the junior doctors over the 96-hour strike, but some people are being taken off secondment, such as an anaesthetic posting, and being brought back into emergency departments. “But they would have been working that day anyway, it’s just a change of roles,” she said.
“I’m not worried that emergency patients coming in will come to any harm. It’s obviously going to be disappointing that some people’s appointments are going to be cancelled and we recognise the impact that will have on some people, but unfortunately everything else we’ve done to try and get the Government to listen hasn’t worked.”
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